Quotes About Observation

I looked at the fashion model and reassured myself she wasn't dead.

the desert, more than anything else, opens the human mind to observation, meditation, and initiation into meaning.

As we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoughly analyzed...

I think that as we experience things, they happen too quickly to be thoroughly analyzed.

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific–and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise– Silent, upon a peak in Darien.

It is while tracking that the hunter exhibits his true skill.

You learn far more about character from

Instinctively, we assume that objects exist separate from the mind, but any investigation of objects necessarily involves the mind in some way, so knowledge always has a subjective element. We know there is a pen because we experience the pen. Thus, no object of knowledge exists apart from the mind experiencing it.

The eyes of a woman in the face of a ten-year-old girl.

Er was niets veranderd in de straat, zag ze. Het was nog steeds dezelfde rustige straat die ze altijd had gekend. Hoe was het mogelijk dat levens totaal konden veranderen, konden worden vernietigd, terwijl straten en gebouwen hetzelfde bleven, vroeg ze zich af.

The only people who come close to annoying me as much as left-laners are cart-hogs, shoppers who leave their carts in the middle of the aisle and wander a few feet away, where they stand with their mouths open staring stupefied at the shelves as if they've never seen food before. I

His denomination, he says, is Empiricism. If you can't count it, measure it, or gauge wit with science, it didn't happen.

I could see from the little turn-up at the corner of her eyes that she was so proud that she could have been her own mother,

In response, he gave an almost imperceptible shoulder shrug that said, White folk gonna white folk.

All this I had been a witness to ever since I opened my eyes on life, yet I had never seen the village at such a late hour of the night.

Were Cicero alive in the America of today he would be aghast and appalled. He would find it so familiar.

The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.

I like the way I can't keep my focus. I watch you talk, you didn't notice.

I've gone into the outside world to reobserve society. The sign language of emotion I once knew has been replaced by a matrix of interrelated equations. Lines of force twist and elongate between people, objects, institutions, ideas. The individuals are tragically like marionettes, independently animate but bound by a web they choose not to see; they could resist if they wished, but so few of them do.

during the party he saw her smile twice and frown once; at those moments, her entire countenance assumed the expression as if it had never known another.

They watch as Zaff sorts through the leaf litter, extracts a leaf decayed to near transparency, and holds it up to his face to look through it, a mask of vegetable lace.

Without any reinforcement—except that of seeing his peers hunt—he had learned every detail of flushing and retrieving and hadn't been spooked in the least by the report of the gun.

When we'd walk by mule deer, he'd watch them—one ear pricked toward them, one ear angled back in my direction—as I'd repeat, "Deer, no, stay,

Surviving" There are days when the fear of death is as ubiquitous as light. It illuminates everything. Without it, I might not have noticed this ladybird beetle, bright as a drop of blood on the window's white sill. Her head no bigger than a period, her eyes like needle points, she has stopped for a moment to rest, knees locked, wing covers hiding the delicate lace of her wings. As the fear of death, so attentive to everything living, comes near her, the tiny antennae stop moving.